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Folio 226: Thompson to Newcastle. Hopes his courier got through; Elizabeth Farnese...

Catalogue reference: SP 78/229/86

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This record is about the Folio 226: Thompson to Newcastle. Hopes his courier got through; Elizabeth Farnese... dating from 1744 Mar 17 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, France. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 78/229/86
Date
1744 Mar 17
Description

Folio 226: Thompson to Newcastle. Hopes his courier got through; Elizabeth Farnese furious at believed French perfidy in abandoning the Spanish fleet; reports of accidental drowning of a number of men at Dunkirk when they tried to embark; appointments indicate possibility of a French offensive into the Austrian Netherlands; French hope Holland will remain neutral; Holland has provided small contingent to Britain as required by treaty; named Jacobites at Dunkirk.

Date and place: 1744 Mar 17 Paris.

Note
For enclosures see ff. 233, 237, 239, 241.
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The National Archives, Kew
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